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J. SCHOENHOF.

PANNIBR AND BUSTLB.

No. 312,518. Patented Feb. 17, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. t

JACOB SOHOENHOF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PANNIER AND BUSTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,518, dated February 1'7, 1885.

V Aapplication filed December 10, 1884. (No model.)

T 0 @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB SoHoENHoE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Panniers and Bustles, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to improvements on that class of panniers, and combined bustles, skirts, and panniers shown and described in my Letters Patent of May 9, 1882, No. 257, 769, February 27, 1883, No. 278,165,.and December 9, 1884, No. 308,996. In all of these the pannier is formed of a series of ruffles,77 so called, which are secured to a body fabric, or to the back breadth of a skirt. The lower free edges of the ruffles are provided with distendingsprings, usually of flat covered skirt-wire. In my last-named patent I showed the upper ruffie constructed deep enough to form a bustle, and provided with a series of parallel distend- My present invention comprises the following distinctively novel characteristics:

First. I make the springs readily removable from their pockets in the rufiles, and connect them together by means of a flexible connector, usually made of webbing or tape.v This connector is attached, ordinarily, to the middles of the springs, where they are exposed at the pocket-openings, and when thus connected, and the springs are removed for washing the pannier or combined skirt and pannier, they will remain connected in their proper relative positions for reinsertion. This is important, as the springs are of different lengths, and it is a matter of considerable difculty for any one, and especially an unskilled person, to replace the springs properly when they have been removed and mixed. This flexible connector also serves the useful purpose mentioned in my former patents-namely, of keeping the ruffles drawn down when the wearer is standing, so as to properly distend the dress.

Second. I provide a deep rufie with several parallel distending-springs at the bottom of the pannier, .usually in addition to the bustle portion or -deep ruffle at the top. This serves to keep the heavy trailing portion of the wearers dress properly distended, which cannot well be attained by the singlelspring shallow ruiles formerly used. The weight of this ruffle also serves to keep the ruflies above itproperly drawn down through the medium of the iiexible connector.

The rst feature of my invention is adapted to a pannier having springdistended ruflles, however constructed as to their depth or to the number of distendingsprings they contain, provided that the springs are made removable in order that the pannier may b e washed.

In the drawings which serve to illustrate 1ny invention, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of my pannier. Fig. 2is a side elevation of the same. showing the pannier attached to and combined with a skirt. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on lines 3 3 in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. et is a view showing all the distendingsprings removed from the pannier, but con; nected together by a flexible strip. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view, showing the opening in the spring-pocket for the insertion of the spring and the attach ment of the iiexible connector to said spring. Fig. 6 isa side elevation of the pannier made distinct or separate from a skirt, and adapted to be attached to any skirt-by means of buttons on the skirt, for example. Figs. 7 and 8 illustrate panniers constructed as shown in my former patents, but provided with theflrst feature of my iniventon.

As to the first features of my invention, a orl are the distending-springs, adapted to be inserted in the spring-pockets b b in the rniles at openings c c in said pockets. are connected together by means of the iexi ble connector d, before referred to, The attachment of the connector to the spring may be effected by the employment of a clip or spangle in the ordinary way of effecting such attachments. The insertion of the spring may be eifected in the usual way-namely, by first inserting one end of the spring at the opening, and then the other end.

As to the second feature of my invention, the upper portion of the pannier has a deep ruffle, e, provided with a series of parallel distending-springs-sim as shown. The lower -portion of the pannier is providedwith a deep I The Springs IOO ruffle, g, also provided with a series of parallel distending-spriugs-four,asshown. Between these deep ruflles are theintermediate shallow ruffles.

Between the deep ruffles e and g are shallow ruffles h, each of which is shown in Figs. l and 2 as provided with two distending-springs. This use of two springs is not, however, es sential.

Where the pannier is combined with a skirt, A, as in Figs. 2 and 3, the back breadth of the skirt may form the body fabric of the pannier, to which the ruffles are attached, and the lacing device i in Fig. 3 would then be insidethe skirt; but where the pannier is made and sold independent of the skirt, as it may be, said pannier is provided with a similar lacing device to that shown, and it may then be worn with any skirt. In this case the attachment may be made by simply sewing buttons on the skirt to engage buttonholes in a fiy, j, on the pannier, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7; or the pannier may be detachably connected to askirt provided with a lacing device, in which case no lacing device will be needed on the pannier.

In Figs. 1 and 2 I have shown the pannier constructed to extend to the bottom of the skirt; but I may construct it to extend only to the top ofthe ruffle on the bottom of the skirtas in Fig. 8, for example. In this case I may attach the lower end of the flexible connector d to a spring in a pocket in the skirt, as shown. This, however, is not essential.

In Fig. 6 I have shown the intermediate rufiies, h, provided with but one spring each, and I may construct them in this manner. As before stated, I do not limit myself to the consrnction of these ruffles with two springs.

Having thus: described my invention, I claiml. A pannier composed of rufiles provided each with distending-springs arranged in pockets in the free edges of the same, and capable of removal, and said springs connected together, as shown, by means of astrip of some suitable iiexible material, whereby the springs, when removed, may remain attached to said strip in their relative positions, as set forth.

2. A pannier comprising a body fabric, a deep ruffle, e, at its top provided with a series of parallel distending-springs, a deep ruflie, g, at its bottom provided with a series of parallel distending-springs, and intermediate shallow ruffles, h, provided with distendingsprings, all constructed and arranged substan- 1 tially as described.

3. A pannier comprising a body fabric, a deep ruffle, e, at its top, a deep ruflie, g, at its bottom, intermediate shallow rufles, h, and sp1-ings a, arranged substantially parallel to each other in said rufiies, as shown, made readily removable from their pockets, and connected permanently together by a flexible strip, d, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The combination, with a skirt, A, provided with an ordinary lacing device, t', of a pannier composed of adeep ruffle, e, at its top provided with a series of parallel and removable distending-springs, a deep rufe, g, at its bottom provided with a series of parallel and removable distending-springs, and intermediate shallow ruffles, h, also provided with removable distending-springs, said springs being permanently connected together by aiiexible stl ip, d, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. fr

JACOB SCHOENHOF.

Witnesses:

HENRY CoNNR'r'r, ARTHUR C. FRASER. 

